'Glee'-type school music contest crowns winners

Mark Kennedy AP Drama Writer

Posted:
06/30/2014 11:24:21 PM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A teenager from Chicago who sang an aching Jason Robert Brown song and another from Georgia who chose to sing "Raise the Roof" — and almost did so — have won top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards.

Each will receive a $10,000 scholarship award, capping a months-long winnowing process that began with 60,000 students from 1,500 schools and ended at the Minskoff Theatre, the long-term home of "The Lion King," which doesn't perform on Mondays.

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